SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
AGMP PROUDLY PRESENTS BREAKESTRA featuring Miles Tackett, Mixmaster Wolf, Afrodyete and more + special guests HOMECUT featuring Testament ( First Word Records ) DATE: TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2009 VENUE: DINGWALLS, Camden Lock, London NW1 TIME: Doors open at 7.30pm COST: £17.50 + booking fee from Ticketweb www.breakestra.com After a four-year break from the studio, L.A.’s finest practitioners...
Skippers Chippers (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Collecting and enjoying all the albums I have has been a lifelong endeavour, if you are like me you cant get enough music stored, weather it be on your hard drive (as seems the norm these days) or sat on your shelf in alphabetical order!! As my music tastes have grown over the years from just Hip Hop/Rap to House to just about anything, my album collection has diversed into allsorts of genres. I can...
Swampland (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
So, four months after its first deadline, the Finance Committee is finally done. Now the spotlight turns to Harry Reid. The fates must have some small sense of irony to burden the largest bill of just about anyone's career (unless you're Bobby Byrd and were here for the passage of the Civil Rights Act) on [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Forty years ago the Woodstock Nation inadvertently marked the end of the 1960s Summer of Love even as it became the enduring symbol of it....
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
A few years ago, David Pietrusza wrote an excellent book about the election of 1920, which featured no less than six current, former, or future Presidents (Wilson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover). I review that book last year and now I’m glad to see that Pietrusza has followed up with an equally [...]
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Funky16Corners Radio v.73 – Vanishing Point aka the Return of Super Soul Playlist Booker T & the MGs – Chicken Pox (Stax) Buddy Miles – Them Changes (Mercury) 5th Dimension – Shake Your Tambourine (Bell) Shirley Bassey – Spinning Wheel (UA) Dorothy Norwood – Soul Train (GRC) Bo Diddley – High Again (Checker) Buena Vistas – Soul Ranger (Marquee) Labelle...
Bobby Byrd (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Self-portrait of Luis Urrea and Bobby Byrd sitting on Monument Marker #1 Please visit Round 1, my August 18 blog note about Luis Urrea's visit to El Paso, so that this will make a bit more sense. Yes, this is the U.S./Mexico Border. It's the first marker set down to delineate the U.S/Mexico Border as established by the 1854 Treaty of Mesilla .) Behind us is where Francisco Madero established La Casita...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Maurice Williams meets the Buena Vistas Yours truly upon the wheels du steel Pat James Longo & DJ Prestige discuss all things funky Funky16Corners Playlist Titanic – Sultana (CBS) Santana – Jin-Go-La-Ba (Columbia) Oneness Of Juju – African Rhythms Pt1 (Black Fire) Mandrill – Fencewalk (Polydor) Buena Vistas – The Soul Ranger (Marquee) Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Words By Jason Hortillas Funk For the Folks is the latest mix by Darien Victor Birks of Flwrpt. If you peeped the Motown 50 mix, you should know what a DVB mix entails. 1. DVB is not a DJ and isn’t trying to be one; this is just a compilation of good music. 2. No mash-ups whatsoever will [...]
HYPES ARE US (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
CD 1 01. DJ Premier – Honoring James Brown 02. Apollo Intro (NYC 1962) 03. The Boss 04. Funky Drummer 05. Talkin Loud Sayin Nothin 06. Blind Man Can See It 07. Soul Power 08. Mother Popcorn 09. Say It Loud (I’m Black And I’m Proud) 10. Take Some Leave Some 11. Super Bad 12. There Was A Time 13. King Heroin 14. Unwind Yourself (Marva Whitney) 15. Same Beat [...]
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
More good groove music for a sunny afternoon chillin' (and blogging) in my backyard in the Tdot. I might cross-post this one on my other blog, The In Crowd 'cos it's got the kind of sound, which their label, Gold Dust calls " Bobby Byrd influenced", that would fit there. Check it: Crown City Rockers - "Soul" [ mp3 download links : zshare | mediafire ] Rhymes by Rashaan Ahmad . From...
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
It's a shame, because this would've been money well spent: "The so-called ‘Cash for Incumbents’ program provided up to $4,500,000 for each politician who voters replaced with a modern public servant that burns less IRS revenue, and emits fewer vitriolic toxins into the atmosphere. The measure contained a provision requiring voters to ‘junk’ the old politician, to ensure...
Strivin' (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Flaunting one of the groups’ most immediate attributes, “Soul,” from Crown City Rockers’ upcoming album The Day After Forever is a perfect primer as to where the Bay Area group’s collective head is at. Over a driving, Bobby Byrd influenced drum track with overlayed jazz chords, emcee Rashaan Ahmad spits tongue twisting rhymes aimed [...]
Hip Hop Ruckus (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
What do you get when you mix nice lyricism with a smoothed out vibe? Crown City Rockers kid! Spectacular... Gold Dust Album Sampler mixed by Large Professor Esinchill - “Soul of the City” with Dave Hollister Evidence & Sick Jacken - “Classical”
Undercover Black Man (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Where the P-Funk heads at? Rubber fans and funkateers... you out there? Because this might make your day. Two of the guiding forces behind Parliament-Funkadelic are still actively recording. But you gotta search like a hound dog to find the product. Keyboard genius Bernie Worrell is part of a loose collective called Method of Defiance , one of Bill Laswell’s avant-garde groove units. The new...
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